Carl Weisbrod
President of the Real Estate Division, Trinity Church

Speaker Bio:

Carl Weisbrod is President of the Real Estate Division for Trinity Church and Executive Vice-President of Trinity Church-St. Paul’s Chapel, an Episcopal parish chartered in 1697.

In this position, Mr. Weisbrod manages and develops Trinity’s real estate holdings in Manhattan, which total approximately six million square feet over 28 sites. He is also a member of the parish’s executive team, the advisory body to the rector that sets mission priorities, operating objectives, and policies.

Mr. Weisbrod is an attorney and has had a distinguished career in several public initiatives focused on revitalizing and developing New York City neighborhoods. Beginning in the 1970’s, he led the successful city and state efforts to revive the Times Square area. During this period he was the Executive Director of the New York City Planning Commission, then President of the 42nd Street Development Project, Inc. a subsidiary of the New York State Urban Development Corporation, and from 1990 to 1994 was founding president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

Just prior to joining Trinity, he was the founding president of the Alliance for Downtown New York, the nation’s largest business improvement district, established in 1995 charged with revitalizing lower Manhattan. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Alliance became a major conduit for rebuilding funds and relief efforts.

Mr. Weisbrod serves as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is the Chairman of the New York State Health Foundation, which funds innovative health care programs throughout New York State. He is a director of two major government authorities, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (as an appointee of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg) and the Convention Center Development Corporation (as an appointee of New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver). He is also a director of Tarragon Corporation, a publicly traded national homebuilding company and the Urban Land Institute among other organizations. He is a former trustee of the Ford Foundation. In 2002, Crain’s New York Business named him one of the “100 Most Influential Leaders in Business.”

A graduate of Cornell University and New York University’s School of Law, Mr. Weisbrod lives in New York with his wife Jody Adams, a Family Court Judge.